It’s not always easy to distinguish between existentialism and a bad mood.

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  • Architeuthis@awful.systemstoSneerClub@awful.systemsRoko has ideas
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    2 days ago

    Grok find me a neoliberal solution to the problem of being unable to monetize your progeny by having your sons till the fields and your daughters sold off.

    Also not to give this blather more consideration than it deserves, but someone in the comments notes that since he banned women from higher education, which severely curtails their economic outcomes, this creates a perverse incentive to only have boys that you can borrow against, which isn’t that good for increasing the population in the long term.









  • A programmer automating his job is kind of his job, though. That’s not so much the problem as the complete enshittification of software engineering that the culture surrounding these dubiously efficient and super sketchy tools seems to herald.

    On the more practical side, enterprise subscriptions to the slop machines do come with assurances that your company’s IP (meaning code and whatever else that’s accessible from your IDE that your copilot instance can and will ingest) and your prompts won’t be used for training.

    Hilariously, github copilot now has an option to prevent it from being too obvious about stealing other people’s code, called duplication detection filter:

    If you choose to block suggestions matching public code, GitHub Copilot checks code suggestions with their surrounding code of about 150 characters against public code on GitHub. If there is a match, or a near match, the suggestion is not shown to you.










  • Yet, under Aron Peterson’s LinkedIn posts about these video clips, you can find the usual comments about him being “a Luddite”, being “in denial” etc.

    And then there’s this:

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    From: Rupert Breheny Bio: Cobalt AI Founder | Google 16 yrs | International Keynote Speaker | Integration Consultant AI Comment: Nice work. I’ve been playing around myself. First impressions are excellent. These are crisp, coherent images that respect the style of the original source. Camera movements are measured, and the four candidate videos generated are generous. They are relatively fast to render but admittedly do burn through credits.

    From: Aron Peterson (Author) Bio: My body is 25% photography, 25% film, 25% animation, 25% literature and 0% tolerating bs on the internet. Comment: Rupert Breheny are you a bot? These are not crisp images. In my review above I have highlighted these are terrible.